Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker (cnn.com)

An anonymous reader quotes CNN: A young Russian alleged to have masterminded a massive hacking of social networks including LinkedIn and Dropbox is now at the center of an extradition struggle between the United States and Russia. Yevgeniy Nikulin was detained in October 2016, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague, after US authorities issued an international arrest warrant for him. He was on vacation there with his girlfriend. A grand jury indictment filed in 2016 in California charges him with computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft, among other offenses. Nikulin denies all the charges. If convicted of all charges, he could face a maximum sentence of more than 50 years in prison and more than $2 million in fines.

But soon after his arrest, Russian authorities also sought his extradition. The Russian charge referred to the alleged theft from an online money transfer company back in 2009. The amount involved was $3,450... The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said soon afterward it was "actively working with the Czech authorities to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen to the United States."

Comments

I don't want him you can't have him

[PopeRatzo]

This is just Putin reminding the current US administration who's boss.

Re:I don't want him you can't have him

[DNS-and-BIND]

Relentlessly portraying Putin as the demonic mastermind behind all that's going wrong in the West is wearing a bit thin for me. I have no connection with Russia, but I find much of the Kremlin's critique of Western (particularly US) foreign policy all too reasonable and plausible. Whether it comes from insincere actors or independent commentators, I couldn't care less; it's the content that counts.

As for Putin himself, he's not the Antichrist. He's just a hard-headed pragmatist trying to keep Russia afloat, using whatever tools he has, which is a pretty unenviable task. The biggest threat to world peace is American imperialism, not Russia.

Re: If he's in Czech, then it's up to them.

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, this Male is in the Czech.

Re:its the devil you know...

[blindseer]

the US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world

We're number one!!! WOOOO! Yeah!

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